California · Nonprofit
Friends of the Lincoln Public Library
Friends of the Lincoln Public Library (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,806 to it, the largest being BOSCH COMMUNITY FUND ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $106k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $24k
- Net assets
- $173k
What Friends of the Lincoln Public Library does
Mission
Friends of the Lincoln Public Library has a five part purpose: 1) to maintain an association of persons interested in books and libraries 2) to promote literacy 3) to focus public attention on library services, facilities, and needs 4) to stimulate gifts of service, books, magazines, desirable collections, endowments, and bequests and 5) to provide community enrichment and outreach programs. All funds used in 2010 were for the furtherance of these specific purposes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Friends of the Lincoln Public Library has a five part purpose: 1) to maintain an association of persons interested in books and libraries 2) to promote literacy 3) to focus public attention on library services, facilities, and needs 4) to stimulate gifts of service, books, magazines, desirable collections, endowments, and bequests and 5) to provide community enrichment and outreach programs. All funds used were for the furtherance of these specific purposes.
$94,432 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $94,432.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $191k to $373k (+95%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $101 → $9k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Friends of the Lincoln Public Library’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Friends of the Lincoln Public Library leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
37% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Friends of the Lincoln Public Library.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
Friends of the Lincoln Public Library draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like Friends of the Lincoln Public Library
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of the Lincoln Public Library: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Friends of the Lincoln Public Library?
- Friends of the Lincoln Public Library (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,806 to it, the largest being BOSCH COMMUNITY FUND ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of the Lincoln Public Library have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $23,806 in grants to Friends of the Lincoln Public Library, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of the Lincoln Public Library?
- BOSCH COMMUNITY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of the Lincoln Public Library find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing